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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1182 1183 1184 – 1185 – 1186 1187 1188

1185 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1185 in poetry v • d • e

1185 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1185 MCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1938
Armenian calendar	634 ԹՎ ՈԼԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-659 – -658
Bengali calendar	592
Berber calendar	2135
Buddhist calendar	1729
Burmese calendar	547
Byzantine calendar	6693 – 6694
Chinese calendar	甲辰年十一月廿八日 (3821/3881-11-28) — to — 乙巳年十二月初八日 (3822/3882-12-8)
Coptic calendar	901 – 902
Ethiopian calendar	1177 – 1178
Hebrew calendar	4945 – 4946
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1240 – 1241
- Shaka Samvat	1107 – 1108
- Kali Yuga	4286 – 4287
Holocene calendar	11185
Iranian calendar	563 – 564
Islamic calendar	580 – 581
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3518
Thai solar calendar	1728
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• April 25—Genpei War: The naval Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to a Minamoto victory in Japan, and the death of Emperor Antoku.
• August 15—The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
• September 11—Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Komnenos dynasty ends.
• Templars settle in London and begin building the New Temple Church.
• The Heian Period ends and the Kamakura period begins in Japan.
• The Katedralskolan, the oldest school in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe, is founded in Lund, Sweden.
• Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.
• November 25—Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 172nd pope.
• Mohammad of Ghur takes Punjab and Lahore, overthrowing the Ghaznavids.
• Igor Svyatoslavich's failed campaign against the Cumans, later immortalized in The Tale of Igor's Campaign

[edit] Births

• April 23—King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
• Inge II of Norway (d. 1217)
• Gertrude of Merania, queen of Andrew II of Hungary (d. 1213)

[edit] Deaths

• April 25—Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
• June 16—Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile, (b. c. 1140)
• July 18—Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala
• July 25—King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
• September 12—Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1118)
• November 25—Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• December 6—King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
• Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)
• Gillchreest MacCathmhaoil, Irish Head Chieftain of Cineal Fereadaidh, clan Aongus, clan Dubhinreacht, clan Fogarty O'Ceannfhoda, and clan Colla.
• Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
• Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (b. 1160)
• Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (b. 1158)
• Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (b. 1152)
• Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier (b. c. 1105)